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I'm a semi-retired professional man, living in the Midwestern United States. This blog is a personal blog and is not directly connected with my professional practice (although I may draw upon my professional experiences, as well as my personal experiences, in writing my blog posts). This is a place for personal, not professional, opinions.

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03/04/2018

The Measure You Use

Luke 6:36-38

Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are."--Donald Miller

"It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one."--Jerome K. Jerome

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."--G.K. Chesterton

Amen.

And yet...

Romans 7:19

For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

"Many masters of the spiritual life have remarked that God often leaves in the most holy souls certain defects, from which, notwithstanding all their efforts, they cannot free themselves entirely, to make them feel their own weakness and what they would be without His grace, to hinder them from being proud of the favors He grants them, and to dispose them to receive these favors with more humil­ity — in short, to nourish in them a certain disgust with them­selves, and so to protect them against all the snares of self-love; to animate their fervor and keep them in a constant state of watchfulness, of trust in God and perseverance in prayer. The child who falls when he has gone a little way from his mother and wishes to walk alone, returns to her with more affection, to be cured of the hurt he has given himself, and he learns by that fall to leave her no more. The experience of his own weakness, and of the tenderness with which his mother re­ceived him, makes him love her more than ever."--Fr. Jean Nicholas Grau

Humility, a key to salvation, is a much underrated virtue in this day and place. Every single one of us could do with a healthy dose of it on a daily basis.